GOES Lightning satellite caught the bolide that streaked across the southern U.S. today
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satellite image of black and white continental U.S. with a green diagonal crossing the border of Virginia and North Carolina
There are multiple "suspicious" images near the VA border and near Atlanta that were nowhere near a storm may be the meteor streaking across the sky/impacting, so it'll be cool if they do verify one of them as having captured it!! (Multiple reports and satellite images at different times may also suggest it's space debris, however. Still cool!)
Update: preliminary reports a "small" fragment hit Georgia home
CNN article: https://www.cnn.com/2025...
source: GOES-EAST satellite (https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES...) & https://bsky.app/profile...
Update: preliminary reports a "small" fragment hit Georgia home
CNN article: https://www.cnn.com/2025...
source: GOES-EAST satellite (https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES...) & https://bsky.app/profile...